FILE - In this March 21, 2012 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Mellon Auditorium in Washington. Biden on Sunday, May 6, 2012 said he's "absolutely comfortable" with gay couples who marry getting the same civil rights and liberties as heterosexual couples, a stand that gay rights advocates interpreted as an endorsement of same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, _ When Vice President Joe Biden takes
the stage for tonight's VP debate he will not only be taking on Republican Paul
Ryan, but the Big Mo, said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster based in
Montgomery.

The Big Mo is momentum, and since the end of last week's
first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican
challenger Mitt Romney, Big Mo has resided with the Romney/Ryan campaign. It's
Biden's job to wrestle momentum back to the Democratic ticket, or to at least
stop the GOP advance and help redirect the Obama/Biden campaign, said Anzalone,
who at one time worked for then Sen. Biden and who, since those early years, has
become a highly regarded pollster and strategist for the Democratic Party.

"The vice president's first job tonight is to get the
narrative back on track," said Anzalone, who will attend the debate. "The
president and vice president have had a consistent message, and that is this
campaign is about continuing the work of restoring our economy and our middle
class. I don't know anyone I would rather see in a debate talking about the
needs and hopes of the middle class than Joe Biden. He connects to middle class
working Americans in a genuine way and he's scrappy and passionate and he gets
it and it will show."

Anzalone said he's feels a real sense of excitement about
tonight's debate.

"Look, both men have good personal stories to tell and both are
passionate about what they believe," said Anzalone. "And, it's in what they believe
about how to address the needs of the nation, the needs of the middle class,
that you will see a real difference in their vision for America."

Tonight's debate will also mark a stark contrast from the
presidential debate last week, said Anzalone.

"I think it's fair to say that what you saw last week in the
presidential debate were two men who keep their emotions in check, who run cool,"
said Anzalone. "But, both these (Biden, Ryan) are Type A guys. They speak
differently, they use words differently than the two men at the top of their
tickets and they connect with the base of their parties in ways that sometimes
the president and Gov. Romney do not."